Contracted ERP projects: Sequential progress, mutual learning, relationships, control and conflicts

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the sequential nature that enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects tend to take and to describe how the buyer typically behaves concerning the ...

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